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In an effort to eliminate interpretation mistakes and in turn improve diagnosis and treatment options for patients who have kidney stones, a team of researchers from Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology recently conducted a 12-month study to determine whether the use of artificial intelligence-trained algorithms can find errors in manually reviewed and reported kidney stone composition results.

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Darci Block, Ph.D., co-director of the Central Clinical Lab in Mayo Clinic’s Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology in Rochester, Minnesota, discusses how and when autoverification is used and not used to help verify the approximately 8,000 specimens that are sent to the department’s Central Clinical Lab every day.

Two leaders have been announced to lead Mayo Clinic Laboratories and other diagnostic services in the biopharma and cardiovascular spaces. William Morice II, M.D., Ph.D., has been named CEO and president and Mary Jo Williamson has been named chief administrative officer.

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In August 2022, Mayo Clinic Laboratories announced thirty-two new tests along with numerous reference value changes, obsolete tests, and algorithm changes.

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Bobbi Pritt, M.D., chair of the Division of Clinical Microbiology in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, was featured in a Health article regarding a new vaccine to prevent Lyme disease. The vaccine is in its final clinical trial phase and could be available in several years.

Bobbi Pritt, M.D., chair of the Division of Clinical Microbiology in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic and director of the Clinical Parasitology Laboratory, joined the Dr. Radio Internal Medicine show on Sirius XM to discuss vector-borne disease, detecting Lyme disease, and diagnosing monkeypox.

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Due to the Labor Day holiday (recognized on Monday, September 5th), Mayo Clinic Laboratories' specimen pickup and delivery schedules will be altered. To ensure that your specimen vitality and turnaround times are not affected, plan ahead.